Vibe coding is changing the way investors think about founders

Vibe coding is shaking up software development, and it’s causing investors to rethink how important it is for a startup’s founder to have technical skills.

Venture capitalists have historically — but not always — leaned toward backing software startup founders who have coding expertise.

But now that people with non-technical backgrounds can write code by giving AI instructions, dubbed “vibe coding” by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, investors have told…